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LAGUNA
DECEMBER 2006/JANUARY 2007 • VOLUME 40 NUMBER 5
Serving AAUW members from Aliso Viejo, Costa Mesa, Dana Point, Irvine, Laguna Beach, Laguna Hills, Laguna Niguel, Mission Viejo, Newport Beach, and San Clemente.
SPECIAL SALON — MEET THE AUTHOR
Take-Charge Living: How to Recast
Your
L A Role
G U NinALife...In Six Acts
by Dr. Marion Jacobs
Sunday, December 3, 3:00 – 5:00pm
At the home of Madeleine Peterson, 3161 Alta Laguna Blvd., Laguna Beach
RSVP Karen Dennis 494-5378 or [email protected]
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AT A GLANCE:
What’s Inside
Co-Presidents’ Letter ...........2
Lit. Luncheon Help Needed .2
Educational Foundation .......3
Women of Achievement .......3
Women’s Issues ....................4
Legal Advocacy Fund ..........5
Public Policy ........................6
International Interests...........6
Calendar of Events ...............7
“Jacobs’s caring, direct approach will
ave you ever wondered why so
many people make New Year’s
engage even the therapy-averse. She teaches
Quick Peek Dates
readers how to identify a desired change, to
resolutions, but so few are able
Laguna Hospitality ....... Dec 1
examine the emotional barriers that prevent
to keep them? Dr. Marion Jacobs, a Laguna
Holiday Music............ Dec 10
Beach clinical psychologist and adjunct
one from making that change and to devise a
International Interests.... Jan 9
practical plan of action for working toward
professor at UCLA, will be discussing
Music Symposium ...... Jan 17
her recently published book, Take-Charge
a goal.”
Poetry Celebration ........Feb 3
Living: How to Recast Your Role in Life...
Come join us for an enjoyable afternoon
In Six Acts at a special salon on Sunday,
and lively exchange and learn some fasciLAF Luncheon............ Feb 17
nating things about making personal choices
Dec. 3.
Literary Luncheon ...... Mar 10
Drawing on her extensive experience as
and changes. To read more about the book
See Calendar on page 7 for
more complete information.
and its author, visit Marion’s website at
clinician, researcher and educator, as well
www.take-chargeliving.com.
as some fascinating recent neuroscience
research, Marion will teach us
how to deal with the inevitable
J A N U A RY S A L O N
emotional resistance to change
and how to successfully move
forward despite it. Some comments from the prominent independent Kirkus review:
Wednesday, January 17, 6:00pm Social;
“A straightforward, prac6:30pm Program; Sage Hill Chamber Orchestra performs at 6:00pm
tical toolkit for identifying
Laguna Art Museum, 307 Cliff Drive, Laguna Beach
and overcoming barriers to
RSVP Bana Hilal 949-495-3675 or [email protected]
change. As clinical psychologist Dr. Jacobs demonstrates
anel Discussion about composing and listening to new classical music,
in this slim, efﬁcient volume,
led by Christopher Russell with Pamela Madsen, The Ahns, and Ferour minds and bodies often
nando Otero, whose new work for The Ahns will be premiered in the
work together to keep us from
January 19, 8pm concert. Last chance to see OsCene 2006: Contemporary Art
making changes that would
and Culture in OC, which closes January 21.
improve our lives.”
The Art of Composing:
Demonstration and Discussion
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CO-PRESIDENTS’ LETTER
L
iving at an accelerated pace in today’s technological world, the fall months have literally
ﬂown by. Here we are, well into our 2nd year
as co-presidents. The end of the calendar year brings us
reﬂection.
This outstanding Branch Board has managed a successful transition, set up a new WAVES Editorial staff,
brought in new members while valuing our longtime
members, provided stimulating programs, events and
interest groups, and established our visibility in the
community. We thank all of you for your devotion and
hard work, and we also appreciate our “retired” Board
members who continue to work behind the scenes.
The New Year brings a long agenda to complete. We
are happy to announce that AAUW-CA will send us the
requested Leader-On-Loan to conduct a workshop on
the Educational Foundation and Funding. Details are
being worked out and we will keep you informed.
In January, the Nominating Committee for the 20072008 Slate of Ofﬁcers will be selected. The committee
is comprised of “two (2) members elected by the Board
and three (3) members elected at a general meeting.”
Please volunteer your efforts for this important task.
There are several exciting events coming up. March
brings the 20th anniversary of the Literary Luncheon.
Our branch is well known for this event. Besides our
own community, this event attracts members from other
branches and guests from as far as San Diego and Los
Angeles.
Another anticipated anniversary is our branch’s 40th
anniversary in May. A special luncheon is in the planning stages to celebrate this milestone.
All of this certainly puts us into a holiday mood.
To you and yours, our warmest wishes for the Holiday
season. And for the New Year, we leave you with the
words of the ancient poet, Shiki:
I gave the greetings
of the bright new year …
as though I held
a plum-branch.
”
May we continue to blossom.
Barbara and Peggie
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Support Needed for
the March 10 Literary
Luncheon!
D
iane Reed, Miriam Kranser, and I need
items for the Silent Auction and Opportunity
Drawing for our annual Literary Luncheon
scheduled for March 10 at the Surf and Sand. For
example, we need people to contact a favorite restaurant
to ask if the owner/manager would donate a dinner. We
need other items, too. Perhaps you have something
special to donate – use of a cabin for a weekend, a boat
ride, a _____ !
The AAUW Laguna Beach Foundation has a 501-c-3
status, so many businesses receive a tax break by donating, and we send letters acknowledging donations. I
have sample letters and letterhead stationery for you.
Letters state that the AAUW Educational Foundation
advances education, research and self-development for
women and girls from kindergarten to post-doctoral
research. We provide funds to send middle school girls
to the AAUW California Tech Trek Summer Science
Camp. Then the letter mentions that the AAUW Laguna Beach Foundation is active in our community and
raises funds to sponsor programs and events for women
and girls, e.g., elementary school tutoring, high school
scholarships for girls, an annual Women of Achievement
event that recognizes and honors outstanding women in
the community, and Laguna Beach Live! concerts.
It is truly the personal request that works. If each of
us would contact one person or business, we would have
an exciting Silent Auction and Opportunity Drawing at
this event that celebrates women authors.
Your willingness to help makes it possible for us to
achieve our fundraising goals.
Please contact one of us if you can help.
Karen Dennis, [email protected]
Diane Reed
Miriam Kranser
TREASURER’S REPORT, NOV. 2006
by Janette Mestre
Branch Savings ......................................... $3,670.35
Branch Checking....................................... $5,957.78
Laguna Beach Foundation (501-c-3)
Savings Account ................................ $11,304.45
Checking Account ................................... $10,642.88
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E D U C AT I O N A L F O U N D AT I O N
Meet the Educational
Foundation Fellows
and Grant Recipients
Outstanding Women
Receive Awards for
Achievement
Miriam Kranser, EF Co-Vice President,
A
AUW is one of the world’s largest sources of
funding for graduate women. Today there are
225 recipients out of 3000 applicants; 37 in
California. Nine of these exceptional women spoke to us at
the southern California EF luncheon in November.
■ JANE GRIFFIN’s interest is Chilean literature and
culture with an emphasis on sexuality and feminism. Her
grant permits her to live in Chile for six months while
studying women’s collectives and efforts in the media.
■ AHN LY is ﬁnishing her dissertation on novels and the
storyteller tradition in West Africa.
■ TRACY SACHTJEN’s project is entitled “American Ugly.” She is researching the commercial beauty
culture in the United States.
■ PATRICIA BECERRA of Bogata, Columbia is
working in the ﬁeld of Molecular Biology as it pertains
to Alzheimers amd Parkinson diseases.
■ ADRIANA BELENCAIA is from Eastern Europe.
She is studying speech sounds, particularly consonant
clusters, for the purpose of developing treatment programs which she hopes to take back to her country.
■ RENEE WILLIAMS work is with the effects of metals on cellular activity as related to Alzheimer’s disease.
■ JESSICA KEITH is engaged in a video project
promoting open dialogue between American and International students with the goal of helping women who
will be involved in international business.
■ SHONNA SMITH received a Community Action
Grant for her “Tech Girl Project” which uses animation
and robots to engage girls in science and technology.
■ PAULA ANN TREVINO and ARICA VILLEGAS initiated “College for Me” at a high school near
San Diego. The program targets underprivileged girls
who would otherwise not apply to college. They visit
colleges and are closely mentored.
Our annual Literary Luncheon provides funds for outstanding women to excel in their studies and projects.
Pictured from left are the honorees this year: Rev.
Ginny Wheeler (Community Outreach), Barbara
Hamkalo (Science Education) , Janice Johnson
(Arts), and Eleanor Finney (Social Justice)
Barbara Hamkalo is our VP for Legal
Advocacy. During her time as professor at UCI she
realized, “We need to get girls out of the classrooms
and into laboratories so that they can experience the
excitement of research.” Her research on chromosome structure and function led to her desire “... to
hop on a chromosome and see how it works and
where it goes”. Of the award, she noted “This is
one of the very few awards I will cherish more than
anything in my career.”
Eleanor Finney’s words of wisdom for us:
“There are many ways to be an activist, and many
qualities of a good activist. Here are a few things
one can do to be an activist:
• Inform yourself.
• Listen to and learn from others.
• Motivate others.
• Enable others—give a gentle push.
• Support others when they do step forward.
• Recognize others -- their work and worth.
• Protest and demonstrate.
• Tenacity is very important – you need to hang on
like a hound dog.
• Accept that you will make mistakes, and move
on.
• Belief and hope are active verbs.
• Activism is the backbone of any democracy and
democracy needs constant vigilance. Democracy
is always a work in progress, never complete.
• This is your time, act up, act out, act against, and
act for!”
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WOMEN’S ISSUES
110th Congress Likely to Promote Women’s Rights
Vera Martinez, Women’s Issues Committeet
M
ake no mistake, on November 7, women
and people of color provided the margin of
victory in dozens of key races across the
country. In fact, 56% of women voters chose Democratic candidates, and according to polls, unmarried women
voted 2 to 1 for Democrats.
While all of us have been celebrating the fact that
Nancy Pelosi will be the ﬁrst woman and self-identiﬁed feminist to become Speaker of the House, it has
been little noticed that many progressive women (and
supportive men of color), including Representatives
Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Louise Slaughter (DN.Y.), Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-Calif.), Nydia
Velazquez (D-N.Y.), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas),
Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), John Conyers (D-Mich.)and
Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), are in line to replace House
Republican (and mostly white male) chairs of committees and subcommittees, and gain integral inﬂuence over
legislation, budgets, programs and services important to
women. How great is this?
Notably, Velazquez will likely be chair of the House
Small Business Committee, representing a step forward
for women small-business owners; Conyers will chair
the Judiciary Committee; and Rangel will take the chair
of the powerful Ways and Means Committee. As for the
House committee that controls committee assignments
(among other things), Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro—just
elected to her 9th term representing Connecticut’s 3rd
district—is expected to co-chair that one, known as the
Steering and Policy Committee, another key move for
women in Congress. Long-time women’s rights supporter Louise McIntosh Slaughter (D-N.Y.) will chair
the House Rules committee. The prospect of having
all of these terriﬁc allies working with Nancy Pelosi to
introduce and pass pro-women, pro-families legislation
makes me hopeful for women’s rights in this country—
and elsewhere.
With 83 women in Congress (and a few races yet to
be decided), and many of these women in line to acquire
greater inﬂuence, we’ve got a lot to celebrate, and even
more to hope for. The sobering truth is, though, that
we’ve only climbed about 2 percentage points in total
representation of women in Congress (from 14 to 16%),
so we’re generations away from parity unless we pick
up the pace.
But with each new woman leader, the number of
girls and women who realize their very real potential
to follow in their footsteps multiplies. So remember to
share last Tuesday’s victories with a girl in your life.
There’s much ground to take back and many issues to
move forward on, and I think we can rely on the 110th
Congress to be our partner in that endeavor. Our job
now is to work with them, hold them accountable and
supply them the public and nationwide support for their
work. Sounds like something NOW was born to do...
Excerpts from: Women Cleaned the House. Below the Belt: A Biweekly Column by NOW President Kim
Gandy, November 15, 2006
Branch Ofﬁcers
Co-Presidents
Barbara Antonacci
Peggie Thomas
President Elect
Madeleine Peterson
Program Development
Bana Hilal
Membership
Anita Halton
Deana Pink
Educational Foundation
Miriam Kranser
Nancy Lawrence
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Legal Advocacy Fund
Barbara Hamkalo
Finance Ofﬁcer
Janette Mestre
Secretary
Ericka Waidley
Web Master
Elaine Lawson
Newsletter
Susan Reese; Karen Dennis;
Marcia Yury
MISSION STATEMENT: AAUW, founded in 1881, promotes
equity for all women and girls, lifelong education, and
positive societal change. In principle and practice AAUW
values and seeks a diverse membership. There shall be no
barriers to full participation in this organization on the
basis of gender, race, creed, age, sexual orientation,
national origin, disability, or class.
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LEGAL ADVOCACY FUND
2006 AAUP Faculty
Gender Equity Indicators
Available online
Barbara Hamkalo, Legal Advocacy Fund (LAF)
Vice President
T
he report, American Association of University
Professors (AAUP) Faculty Gender Equity Indicators 2006, provides data on four measures
of gender equity for faculty at over 1,400 colleges and
universities across the country. The individual campus
listings included in the report will serve to promote discussion of faculty gender equity at the local level, where
the success of existing strategies to improve the situation of women academics can best be evaluated. In this
way, the AAUP hopes to move discussions about the
full participation of women as faculty from the realm of
abstract goals into concrete actions for improvement.
The four indicators compared in the report for men
and women faculty are employment status (full- and
part-time); tenure status for full-time faculty; promotion
to full professor rank; and average salary for full-time
faculty. The report consists of three sections: an article
on “Organizing around Gender Equity ,” authored
jointly by Professor Martha West of the University of
California, Davis, and John W. Curtis, AAUP Director
of Research and Public Policy; aggregate national tables
for each of the four equity indicators by type of institution; and an appendix listing the four indicators for each
individual college and university. Data for the report are
drawn primarily from the AAUP Faculty Compensation
Survey, with additional data on part-time faculty from
the U.S. Department of Education.
Laguna Live! Presents
Special Music Concerts
FREE CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT,
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3. Laguna Beach Live!
presents a piano trio featuring Charlene Chi, mezzo-soprano, Yana Reznik on piano and Alexander Suleiman
on cello, December 3rd, at the Laguna College of Art &
Design, 2222 Laguna Canyon Road in Laguna Beach,.
The concert will be 3 to 4:30 pm and is free to the
public. Come early to enjoy the drawing and painting
exhibition, “Three Realists” featuring the works of Phillip Geiger, George Nick and Alton Sultan in the College
Art Gallery, which opens at 2 pm.Information is online
at www.lagunabeachlive.org.
5TH ANNUAL LAGUNA BEACH MUSIC
FESTIVAL JANUARY 15-21, 2007 presented
by Laguna Beach Live! and the Philharmonic Society
of Orange County, brings music at its most exciting--up
close and accessible. The week features a special Meet
the Artists salon, educational events, master classes &
three inspired weekend concerts.
2007 Featured Artists are The Ahn Trio, Juilliardtrained Korean sisters who are breathing new life into
the classical music scene by breaking all the rules with a
hip, contemporary image and a sophisticated, innovative
approach to performance.
Enjoy world premieres of compositions, specially
commissioned by the Festival for the Ahn Trio, by David Benoit, Paul Chihara, Nguyen Le & Fernando Otero
Information and tickets: www.
lagunabeachmusicfestival.com and www.
lagunabeachlive.org or call 949.715.9713.
To see the entire report, go to: http://aaup.org/
AAUP/pubsres/research/geneq2006
LAST CHANCE— GET YOUR 2007 ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS FOR JUST $35!
THEY HELP SUPPORT LEGAL ADVOCACY FUND
Some of the ﬁne 105 dining restaurants in the Entertainment book include:
Laguna Beach - Claes in the Hotel Laguna, Ti Amo Ristorante, The Cottage, Romeo Cucina; Corona del Mar - Five
Crowns • Irvine - The Melting Pot; Newport Beach - Dolce, Villa Nova, Ristorante Mamma Gina, & Newport Landing; Mission Viejo - Fish Market & Grill on the Lake • Anaheim - Mr. Stox
Other pluses in the Entertainment book are Best Rates for hotels in various cities. Don’t forget the coupons. You can
use the $5.00 off at Ralphs each month. There are numerous coupons for movies and other attractions.
You can reserve yours now by e-mailing us. We deliver! Barbara Hamkalo or
Karen Dennis [email protected]
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PUBLIC POLICY
I N T E R N AT I O N A L I N T E R E S T S
How Public Schools
Measure Up:
New Research
“Capitol Crimes” to be
Discussed in January
from Beverly McComb, Public Policy Chair
Public Versus Private School
Student Performance
A recent study conducted by the National Center for
Education Statistics (NCES) of the U.S. Department of
Education compared the effectiveness of public schools
to that of private institutions. After controlling for critical demographic factors (parents’ income, education
level, number of books in household), NCES found that
pubic schools perform as well as, and even better in a
few instances, than private schools.
AAUW’s 2005-2007 Public Policy Program states,
“AAUW advocates opposition to the use of public funds
for nonpublic elementary and secondary education.”
Vouchers divert public funds for nonpublic elementary
and secondary education.” Vouchers divert public funds
from public schools by subsidizing tuition at private
or religious schools with federal dollars. In addition,
vouchers allow taxpayers’ dollars to be spent according
to the policies of a private school board, not the decision of a democratically elected and publicly accessible
school board.
Study Reveals Charter School
Student Achievement Lagging
According to a recent report released by the U.S.
Department of Education, fourth graders in traditional
public schools had signiﬁcantly higher scores in both
reading and math than did those attending charter
schools. AAUW supports innovative educational
methods that foster equal education for all students
within the public school system. Charter school proposals must be assessed carefully to ensure they contain no
provisions that would promote or result in inequities or
segregation based on sex or race. Furthermore, charter
schools should be held to the same civil rights laws and
accountability measures as pubic schools under the No
Child Left Behind Act.
Correction: Please make note of the correct email
and phone number of our new member, Dolores Hoffman, that was incorrect in the last Waves. Her correct
email and phone are [see paper copy]
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Tuesday, January 9, 10:00am
At the home of Jean Brotherton, 424 Panorama
Dr., Laguna Beach. Please carpool and RSVP
Jean 494-8796
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n January, the group will view and then discuss
the Bill Moyers on America PBS special “Capitol
Crimes.”
In February, the International Interests group will
begin discussing the eight topics in the Great Decisions
2007 brieﬁng books and accompanying videotapes
which feature in-depth articles on global/thematic issues
shaping U.S. foreign policy and the world in which we
live and are the centerpiece of the longest-running civic
education program devoted to U.S. foreign policy and
global affairs.
Each Great Decisions topic includes historical
background, description of current U.S. policy and alternative policy options, informative maps and detailed
graphs, as well as opinion ballots for readers to express
their views.
HELP WANTED
TLC NEEDS YOU!
TLC (The Learning Club) is an AAUW-LB
sponsored tutoring program
for elementary school children.
WHEN: Tuesdays and /or Thursdays
2:15 - 3:30pm
WHERE: EL Morro Elementary School
(north Laguna Beach)
FACT: TLC is an AAUW-LB sponsored
community program. Yet only 25% of the
volunteers come from our membership.
TO VOLUNTEER: call or email Peggie
Thomas at: 499-l817 or [email protected]
WE NEED YOU!
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CALENDAR
DECEMBER, 2006
Friday, December 1, 5:00pm: Laguna Beach Hospitality Night. Santa comes to town on a ﬁre engine
and lights the pepper tree in front of City Hall to the tune of school choirs and bands. On the Pepper Tree
Parking Lot, the Laguna Community Concert Band will perform an hour of music starting at
5:30.
Sunday, December 3, 3-5:00pm: Special Salon for Marion Jacobs, author of Take-Charge
Living, How to Recast Your Role in Life…In Six Acts. (See page 1.) At Madeleine Peterson’s home,
3161 Alta Laguna Blvd, Laguna Beach. RSVP Karen Dennis 494-5378 or [email protected].
Wednesday, December 6, 6:00 pm: Board Meeting. At the home of Carol Reynolds. Holiday party at
7:00 pm. Please let Barbara Antonacci know what you are bringing—248-5139 or e-mail [email protected]
Sunday, December 10, 3:00pm: Laguna Community Concert Band’s third annual holiday
music concert. Included in the program will be LeRoy Anderson’s Christmas Festival and Sleighride, Adeste
Fideles, Christmas on Broadway featuring Linda Hughes and the Thurston Singers, SwingSet jazz group with
Christmas jazz, Christmas Pops Sing-a-Long, and Hanukkah. At Artists’ Theatre at LBHS. Concert is free with
free parking. For information call Carol Reynolds at 497-0986.
Wednesday, December 13, 2:00-4:00pm: Poetry Appreciation. At the home of Barbara Garrett.
RSVP Barbara Garrett, 5 Corte De Vega, San Clemente 92673
Because of the holiday season, these interest groups will not be meeting in December: Art Appreciation, Dine
Out, Evening Books, and International Interests.
JANUARY, 2007
Tuesday, January 9, 10:00am: International Interests. The group will view and then discuss the Bill
Moyers on America PBS special “Capitol Crimes.” At the home of Jean Brotherton, 424 Panorama Dr., Laguna
Beach. Please carpool. RSVP Jean 494-8796.
Wednesday, January 10, 2:00-4:00pm: Poetry Appreciation. At the home of Deana Pink, 377 Pine
Crest Drive, Laguna Beach. Carpooling advised. RSVP Deana.
Wednesday, January 10, 7:00pm: Board Meeting. At the home of Janette Mestre. Please note that
because of the holidays, the meeting is a week later. Board meetings are always open, and members are encouraged to attend when they can.
Wednesday, January 17, 11:00am: Art Appreciation Tour- Kathy Jones Studio, 3251 La-
guna Canyon Road, #F, Laguna Beach. Lunch will be in Laguna Beach, following the tour- location
TBA. Please RSVP, Cynthia Weitz at 949-643-2339; or to Deana Pink, 949-497-9900,
and include information about whether or not you will be having lunch.
Wednesday, January 17, 6:30pm: Music Symposium with and about musicians in the
Laguna Beach Music Festival. At Laguna Art Museum, corner of Cliff Dr, and N. Paciﬁc Coast Hwy.,
Laguna Beach. Contact Bana Hilal
Wednesday, January 24, 7:30pm: Evening Book Discussion—Shadow of the Wind by Carlos
Ruiz Zafon. Please contact Dean Pink for further information, 497-9900 or [email protected]
FEBRUARY, 2007
Saturday, February 3, 10:30am: Poetry Celebration. At Aliso Viejo Library, 1 Journey, Aliso Viejo.
Contact Barbara Garrett 498-3100
Saturday, February 17, Noon-2:00pm: AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund Luncheon,
an Orange County AAUW event, will be held at Leisure World. Details to follow in the next Waves.
SAVE
THE
DATE!
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